Re: csh (or tcsh) help needed

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 16:35:30 +0700, Robert Elz wrote:

> ps: you should probably try bash - it is mostly finger compatible with
> csh (which is why I switched sometime in the 80's) but being based on
> a rational overall design (the Bourne shell syntax) is in general much
> easier, and in particular, has functions --- in bash (or any sh variant)
> you wouldn't use an alias (even though (simple) aliases exist, there's
> really no good reason to use them)

Hear, hear.  I switched from csh to bash when I moved to SysV from
2.9BSD and I still have a cargo-cult command number in my prompt,
though I haven't used a number-based history in a couple of decades.
But I still use type-ahead !! or !? from time to time. :)

-uwe